Several formatting questions about Twenty eleven

  • Hi – I am developing a simple website to advertise a vacation rental property in Southern France. So, there is no blog component. I am new to WordPress – and using the Twenty Eleven template, and have read through much of “WordPress 3 Complete”. Here are some what I think should be simple formatting questions:
    1. How can one get rid of the background border above the Header?
    2. How can one significantly reduce the white space between the Header and the Page title?
    3. Is there some way of making the single-column in the Default Page template wider? I like the width of the Showcase Template, but don’t like the fact that it displays “Recent Posts” – even after I have deleted all the points.
    4. Also, when I try to shrink the size of an image in a page, (either by using edit or by grabbing one of the corners of the image), it just goes back to its original size. Is there a trick there?

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  • What is your URL?

    Thread Starter ronsat

    (@ronsat)

    Right now, I am just playing with the structure at https://www.rondeautechnology.com/Wordpress. Once we have gathered the content, I will create the actual site an yet-to-be-determined URL.

    1. Insert this into your custom CSS

    #page {
    margin-top: -2em;
}

    2. Insert this into your custom CSS

    article.intro .entry-content {
    margin-top: -50px;
}

    3. If you adjust a column width, it is going to make the adjustment on all pages… unless you write a custom function.

    4. Not sure what you mean here… to adjust the size of an image you can always use basic html, and use a height and width attribute.

    Thread Starter ronsat

    (@ronsat)

    1 and 2:
    When you say “insert into your Custom CSS”, do you mean simply adding the lines to the style.css file, or creating a custom.css file and inserting it into the appropriate directory?

    3: I am fine with the idea of adjusting the width on all pages (since I don’t plan on using columns except on a single page.

    4. I just tried experimenting a little more. In the images in the Default Template page, I did set the height and width – however, the images are then fixed and look bad if I shrink the browser window too much. In the images in the Showcase Template, even if I go into edit, and set the size of the image using the facility there, it bounces back to the true size of the image – but then those images shrink appropriately when the browser window shrinks. So, I guess, if I want smaller images on the page in the Showcase Template, I need to reduce the resolution of the images before uploading.

    Well, you should really look into creating a child theme if you are going to be making adjustments to your css file. However, in the meantime, yes you can just paste it in the bottom of the style.css file.

    Thread Starter ronsat

    (@ronsat)

    Thanks. It seems that
    article.intro .entry-content {
    margin-top: -50px;
    }
    raises the text in the Showcase Template, but not in the Default Template.
    Also, is there a way of getting rid of the “Recent Posts” section in the Showcase Template?
    Btw – I noticed the recommendations for various plugins at your website. I am going to use the Contact one – appears to work well – and perhaps others – thanks.

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